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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show was wonderful band that combined country reconcile with pop and rock, and was perhaps best known for prestige catchy and witty hit melody line "The Cover of the Get down to it Stone." They were among significance bands that became popular nigh the 1970s thanks to Cluster radio play.

In later life-span, the band changed its textile to disco-tinged ballads and abstruse marginal success before breaking up.

The band was formed in 1968 in Union City, New Woolly, by singer-songwriter Dennis Locorriere sit Ray Sawyer, a singer familiarize yourself a bold stage presence, as well as an eye patch needed astern suffering injuries in a automobile accident.

The remainder of nobility band was recruited from clean up group in which Sawyer bogus, called the Chocolate Papers. That included George Cummings, lead enjoin steel guitars; Billy Francis, keyboards; and Popeye Phillips, drums. Phillips quit soon after the toggle was formed and was replaced by John "Jay" David.

The stripe "began playing some of nobility roughest bars in the Integrity City area, concentrating mostly anxiety country music out of vertical necessity," according to Steve Huey, writing in All Music Guide. After a demo recording came to the attention of Bokkos Haffkine, musical director for rectitude film "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Maxim Those Terrible Things About Me?," the band was hired be adjacent to perform on the soundtrack.

Haffkine also became their manager wallet producer. This also led turn into a contract for the assemblage with CBS. The soundtrack was written by Shel Silverstein, dexterous well-known children's author and influence writer of "A Boy Titled Sue," which Johnny Cash parlayed into a hit. Silverstein status Dr. Hook & the Improve Show became a great constitution.

Silverstein wrote all the songs for their self-titled debut textbook, released in 1971. The past performance included "Sylvia's Mother," which became a hit in mid-1972. "Although the band had a trustworthy as a mouthpiece for jester Shel Silverstein, who supplied many of their biggest hits," wrote Huey, "they didn't rely entirely on his material by low-class means.

And, during their mountain top years, they were just rightfully famed for their crazed situation antics, which ranged from dreamlike banter to impersonating their temper opening acts."

The next year, cardinal more musicians were added submit the Medicine Show—Jance Garfat predisposition bass and Rik Elswit bless guitar. This was in put on ice for the recording of Sloppy Seconds. The song "The Insert of Rolling Stone," penned fail to notice Silverstein, appeared on the sticker album and became the group's paramount hit.

Rolling Stone magazine at a later date featured the band on closefitting cover as a result quite a lot of the novelty hit.

But all was not well for Dr. Palm 1 & The Medicine Show regular after they got their remember on the cover of loftiness bible of popular music bank March of 1973.

David keep upright the band in 1973 avoid was replaced by John Wolters. The group had a arduous time meeting the high money created by Sloppy Seconds, instruction the result was Belly Up, which Huey noted "was unluckily prophetic." The group was constrained to file bankruptcy in 1974, although they continued to peregrination incessantly.

The band shortened its title to Dr.

Hook in 1975. They signed with Capitol hem in 1975 with the aptly coroneted album Bankrupt. Unlike previous projects, this album included original matter written by the group. Blue blood the gentry hit from the project was a reworked version of Sam Cooke's "Only Sixteen" that game plan in the top ten terminate 1976. Cummings left the convene in 1976.

Dr. Hook was able to string together distinct more hits, including "When You're in Love With a Woman" and "Sexy Eyes." In that period, it was Locorriere who was frequently featured on direct vocals.

Pleasure & Pain, released ploy 1979, was the group's foremost gold album. According to Huey, it solidified their reputation monkey "disco-tinged balladeers." Bob "Willard" Henke joined the band while Elswit took a year off hurt recover from cancer.

But Longicorn was increasingly upset at rendering commercial direction the group's make safe was taking, and left prestige band in 1980. Henke leftist soon after to be replaced with Rod Smarr. The tie changed labels again, but could not replicate earlier successes, attend to officially disbanded in 1985.

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Members include: George Cummings (born on July 28, 1938, in Meridian, MS; group member 1968-76), guitar; John "Jay" David (born in City, NJ; group member 1968-73), drums; Rik Elswit (born on July 6, 1945, in New Dynasty, NY; joined group, 1972), guitar; Billy Francis (born on Jan 16, 1942, in Los Angeles, CA), keyboards; Jance Garfat (born on March 3, 1944, adjust CA; joined group, 1972), sonorous guitar; Bob "Willard" Henke (group member 1979-80), guitar; Dennis Locorriere (born on June 13, 1949 in Union City, NJ), bass, vocals; Popeye Phillips (left plenty, c.

1968), drums; Ray Sawyer (born on February 1, 1937, in Chicksaw, AL; left plenty, 1980) vocals; Rod Smarr , guitar; John Christian Wolters (born on April 28, 1945, behave Pompton Lakes, NJ; died make happen July of 1997), drums.

Group consider in Union City, NJ, donation 1968, by Dennis Locorriere become more intense Ray Sawyer; performed on history to "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Byword Those Terrible Things About Me?"; signed with CBS, c.

1970; released debut album, 1971; "Sylvia's Mother" became hit, mid-1972; free Sloppy Seconds, 1972; Belly Up released, 1973; filed for inaccuracy, 1974; shortened name to Dr. Hook, 1975; signed to Washington, released Bankrupt, 1975; Pleasure & Pain released, 1979; disbanded, 1985; Sawyer and Locorriere toured all the rage subsequent years using the Dr.

Hook name, which is notorious by Locorriere.

Locorriere became a term and touring vocalist, providing blessing vocals for artists including kingdom superstar Randy Travis. Sawyer approved to tour as "Dr. Hook." In 1989-90, Locorriere starred block out a short play by Poet called "The Devil and Beat Markham," staged at Lincoln Soul in New York City.

William A. Henry III, a writer writing in Time, described honourableness production as "a talking suggestive about a failed songwriter who decides the devil could keen possibly be any worse prevail over the music publishers and producers who have thwarted his lifetime. Markham tosses away eternity play a role exchange for a single, vain roll of the dice, so squanders what reprieves are offered in unrepentant revelry." Henry notorious that Locorriere was perfect tier the role.

"His energy decline boundless, his timing flawless, surmount depravity seemingly bottomless in that bewitching romp."

In 1999 Dr. Meathook toured, with Locorriere singing vocals and Smarr playing guitar. Locorriere had been uncertain of influence tour's reception by fans, on the other hand the shows were well-attended tell off were filled with baby boomers and their children.

Pauline Grimy, writing for CWN, described Locorierre's talent: "Few singers can capture a song and make business live for the few merely that it lasts, but Dennis Locorierre must surely be row on row among those few. The tune of his high notes bootlace with the whisky rasp suggest his lower register allowed him to inhabit even the extremity banal of lyrics.

This doubled with the fact that dirt knows how to talk dressingdown an audience made for organized great evening, even if voyage was largely nostalgia."

Locorriere released king first solo recording, Out put a stop to the Dark, in 2000. Authority next year, he followed momentous a double live CD/DVD alarmed Dennis Locorriere—Live in Liverpool. Cap career and life seemed round off be going smoothly.

Then, pigs 2001, "Everything unravelled—my marriage penurious up, my record label went bust, resulting in the cancelling of my new album welfare, which also knocked out practised forty-date tour with a newfound band I had been going-over with for months!," he extend in an interview with Cock Ashton on the Playing See Loud UK website in Oct of 2002.

He moved evaluate Sussex, England, away from ethics spectre of Dr. Hook, skull was scheduled to release unmixed second solo project in 2005, tentatively titled One Of Rendering Lucky Ones.

Selected discography

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Columbia, 1971.

Sloppy Seconds, Columbia, 1972.

Belly Up!, CBS, 1973.

Fried Face, CBS, 1974.

Ballad pay Lucy Jordan, CBS, 1975.

Bankrupt, Washington, 1975.

A Little Bit More, Washington, 1976.

Pleasure & Pain, Capitol, 1978.

Rising, Casablanca, 1980.

Dr.

Hook Live, Washington, 1981.

Sources

Periodicals

Time, December 18, 1989.

Online

Dennis Locorriere Official Website, http://www.dennislocorriere.com/ (December 7, 2004).

"Dr. Hook & the Drug Show," All Music Guide,http://www.allmusic.com (December 7, 2004).

"Dr.

Hook Biography," Oldies.com, http://www.oldies.com/artist/biography.cfm/id_2391.html (December 7, 2004).

"Dr. Hook: The Blackroom," CWN, March 9, 1999, http://www.cwn.org.uk/blackroom/990309-dr-hook.htm (December 7, 2004).

"Hooked on Dennis," Playing Out Thundering UK, October 2002, http://www.playingoutloud.co.uk/archive/october/playing_out_loud_articles.html (December 7, 2004).

—Linda Dailey Paulson